You may be losing more heat - and cash - through your basement ceiling than you suspect. But there are steps you can take yourself reduce heating costs and increase comfort. A simple DIY insulation ...

Q: I inherited a concrete block building that was then converted into a home several years ago. Part of it has a crawlspace and part is on a concrete slab. The crawlspace is always damp, and the ...

A home's duct system -- the network of tubes in walls, floors and ceilings that carries hot or cold air to each room -- may waste a lot of energy dollars. Many duct systems are poorly insulated or not ...

Q. The heating ducts in our basement are exposed, and I know a lot of heat that I’d like to have upstairs is being lost moving through the ducts. The main duct is large and rectangular and runs almost ...

The main objective when insulating your home is to create a heat-retaining envelope, one that will contain and put to best use the heat produced by your heating unit. To achieve this, you'll need to ...

Q I recently read that air ducts in a home should be insulated to conserve energy. What does that mean? How is that done in an existing home? Are there specific companies that do this work? A Ducts ...

Poor heating of rooms in homes equipped with warm-air furnaces can sometimes be traced to heat loss through uninsulated or poorly sealed air ducts. When ducts run through cold areas such as crawl ...

Q: We need to re-wrap the heat pipes in our basement. They have old asbestos (-based?) wrap on them. I was told that you could encapsulate the pipes using Future Floor Wax to keep the asbestos dust ...

Q: I inherited a concrete block building that was then converted into a home several years ago. Part of it has a crawlspace and part is on a concrete slab. The crawlspace is always damp, and the ...